1. Pre-Christian sacred geometry was incorporated into church architecture.

2. Wicca is a Neo-Pagan religion based on the pre-Christian traditions of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

3. Much like people today, pre-Christian pagans would throw toilet parchment all over the tree outside their mean alchemy teacher's house.

4. There was a pre-Christian sect called "the Essenes" that was influential in the moulding of Christianity, and it behooves us to look at them briefly.

5. With a history going back to pre-Christian times, the Portuguese Water Dog travelled with world with 15th century Portuguese explorers, swimming between ships with its webbed feet.

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6. It is a pre-christian slavic name which means 'too dear', or 'very dear'.

7. In Pre-Christian times, when everything else was brown and dormant in winter, people used evergreen plants to decorate their dwellings as a reminder that life would return to the landscape in spring.

8. Any discussion of pre-Christian asceticism is outside the scope of this article.

9. These ceremonies were already part of pre-Christian ritual in Mexico.

10. Although he has origins in Norse and pre-Christian mythology , Santa Claus took shape in the United States.

11. Behring is a pre-Christian Germanic name derived from Behr, the Germanic word for bear (or "those who are protected by the bear").

12. In the pre-Christian era, this planet actually had two names, as it was not realized it could alternately appear on one side of the Sun and then the other.

13. The Witch-cult is the term for a hypothetical pre-Christian, pagan religion of Europe that allegedly survived into at least the early modern period.

14. It has been suggested that it is linked to pre-Christian celebrations of a fruitful harvest and that the male goat or 'Puck' was a pagan symbol of fertility, like the pagan god Pan.

15. Imniashvili says that the ball was traditionally baptized in a mixture used in pre-Christian celebrations in western Georgia.

16. At number six is the tale of the easter bunny. This has its origins in pre-Christian fertility lore and symbolises new life in the spring.

17. Russians are also celebrating the end of winter with Pancake week, a pre-Christian carnival of revelry across Russia.

18. Such legends seem to be a thinly veiled version of pre-Christian fertility rites, rather than an allegory of Christ's resurrection.

19. The origin of the belief that the mistletoe had magical powers, began in pre-Christian Europe.

20. For the Jewish communities who first compiled these writings in the pre-Christian era, the Bible was perhaps first and foremost a record of God's eternal covenant with the Jewish people.

21. Documented evidence of Schleicherlaufen dates to the 15th century, but the festival may well have older roots in the rituals of pre-Christian peoples in Austria's Tyrol region.